Scientific Information Committee
The Scientific Information Committee (SInC), formerly SIPB, is an inter-departmental body reporting to the Director for Research and Computing. It addresses matters related to all aspects of scientific information for the high-energy physics community.
The SInC mandate, established in July 2026, is available here. The former committee, SIPB, was established in 1990, and its mandate was updated in 2022.
SInC meetings
The SInC typically meets two to three times per year upon invitation of its chair. Meeting details and minutes have been available online since 1995 to the CERN community (login required).
Current members of the SInC
Department representatives
- Michelangelo Mangano, TH (Chairman)
- Salomé Rohr, OSI (Secretary)
- Carlos Lourenço, EP (Chair CREB, EP)
- Jamie Boyd, EP (other LHC exp. + fixed targets experiments)
- Sergio Calatroni, TE
- Zaida Conesa del Valle and Ralf Averbeck, EP (ALICE)
- Andrea Giammanco, ACCU
- Marie-Helene Genest, EP (ATLAS)
- Magdalena Kowalska, EP (other small experiments)
- Detlef Küchler (BE)
- Ana Lopes, IR, DG, FAP, HR, IPT, SCE
- Chiara Mariotti, EP (CMS)
- Harvey Meyer, TH (incoming)
- Emilio Radicioni, ACCU
- Thierry Stora, SY
- Stefania Vecchi, EP (LHCb)
Ex-officio members
- German Cancio (IT, Collaborative Applications)
- Anne Gentil-Beccot (SIS, Open Science Operations)
- Jose Benito Gonzalez Lopez (IT, Open Science)
- Micha Moskovic (SIS, INSPIRE)
- Olivia Mandica-Hart (SIS, Archives)
- Kamran Naim (SIS/CIO, Open Science Strategy)
- Salomé Rohr (SIS, SL Archives & Library)
- Harris Tzovanakis (SIS, SL Tools & Services)
- Jens Vigen (SIS, Publishing)
- Gautier Hamel de Monchenault (DRC, standing invitation)
CERN Objects Preservation Policy
Statement issued by the Scientific Information Policy Board on Monday 18 June 2007 and approved by the Director General.
CERN has a scientific and cultural heritage stretching back to the Organization’s foundation in 1954 and embodied not only in its scientific works, but also in its scientific instruments and other objects. These have been produced at CERN, as well as in collaborating institutes around the world, and many are of historical importance. Working with the originating institutes, it is CERN’s policy, within the available resources, to identify and preserve the most important of these for posterity, to put them on public display where possible at CERN, and to make them available on loan to science museums and scholars of the history of science. The body charged with selecting which objects to preserve is the SIPB, drawing on expert advice both from within and outside the Organization. Following preparation for use as display items by the technical Departments concerned, selected objects become the property of the CERN Communication group (DG-CO), which has responsibility for their management. For more information please contact library.desk@cern.ch
History of the SInC
The Scientific Information Committee is the continuation of the Scientific Information Policy Board (SIPB) and previously the Library Committee as of November 1989.
Former Library committee and SIPB chairs
- Lew Kowarski
- Brian Montague (ISR)
- Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (EP): 1978-1989
- Maurice Jacob (TH): 1989
- John Ellis (TH): 1990-1994
- Walter Blum (EP): 1994-1997
- Gabriele Veneziano (TH): 1997-1998
- Rudiger Voss (EP): 1998-2002
- Guido Altarelli (PH/TH): 2002-2006
- Gigi Rolandi (PH/EP): 2006-2017
- Michelangelo Mangano (TH): 2017-2026
CERN Reports Editorial Board (CREB)
CREB was a separate committee until May 2004. From this date onwards CREB was made a sub-group of the SInC, responsible for the oversight of issues related to the CERN Yellow Reports series.
Archive Committee
The Archive Committee was a sub-committee of the SIPB to discuss specific archive-related projects. It was discontinued in 2004, and it was last chaired by Gabriele Veneziano.